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As the National Governing Body (NGB) for group exercise, the focus of our work is to protect, support, and elevate the entire sector. To do this effectively, we must make sure that our initiatives, frameworks, and standards are directly informed by the people who live and breathe this industry every day.
Consultation is our way of ensuring that our members’ voices shape our decisions and our governance, creating a fair, transparent, unbiased and inclusive approach to everything we do.
Whether we are addressing critical industry benchmarks like Instructor Pay, or establishing new professional frameworks, your insights ensure our work remains relevant, impactful, and aligned with the sector’s actual needs.
We regularly go out to the sector to gather evidence, test ideas, and build consensus on industry topics, including:
We are constantly looking to refine clear boundaries and professional frameworks for emerging and established group exercise disciplines, to make sure group exercise is being delivered in a safe and qualified way.
The input we receive from group exercise instructors allows us to align our approaches with the experiences of people teaching in the industry.
Part of our role as an NGB, is to research industry-wide challenges, such as instructor pay and working conditions, and both benchmark and provide recommendations for improvements. Feedback and insight on these topics from the wider industry is always valuable.
We support external consultations to ensure training frameworks meet the evolving demands of modern fitness environments.
We gather data to champion the social and health value of group exercise to government and funding bodies and rely on the insight of instructors within the industry to add context to our findings.
We also also feed into external consultations with other organisations and give evidence as part of other consultations relevant to the sector, to make sure group exercise voices are being heard.
We don’t just consult for the sake of it. Every piece of feedback received through this process is analysed and used to:
Shape the final policies, frameworks, and safety guidelines we publish.
Represent the group exercise sector as a credible, evidence-informed voice in discussions with public health bodies, insurers, workforce partners, and policymakers. We also contribute to government consultations and calls for evidence.
Keep our resources, member benefits, and support structures aligned with your day-to-day realities.
There are no consultations open at this time. When new consultations are launched, they will be published here, and we welcome your feedback.
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